Understand that there is a difference between a hacker and a cracker. They both work with software. They find problems with computer systems. The main difference is that hackers create, while crackers exploit. Hackers do not intentionally break the law; only crackers do.
Watch movies featuring crackers who share your basic demographics. Copy the way they dress in the movies.
Read books about crackers, and copy the way they dress in the books.
Discover the fun and benefits of social engineering.
Spend as much time as possible in front of a computer. While there, you might learn programming, or try securing your own computer and breaking into that.
Learn to touch type. You can't look like a cracker without being able to type fast.
Learn the vocabulary of computer security, like "black hat", and drop those terms into your everyday speech.
Learn UNIX, or at least a few command line tools, and use them.
Install and learn Linux. Come back here when you are done and read this again.
Make sure you have an account on IRC and you know at least one RFC number.
Be familiar with the hacker's lingo like skiddie, defcon, bofs (Buffer Overflows) .
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